Brian Bosma made the right call

Opponents of HJR3 in the House gallery watch as the Elections and Apportionment committee votes to pass along HJR-3, the proposed constitutional amendment gay marriage ban, to a full vote on the House of Representatives floor following several hours of public testimony in the House chamber at the Indiana Statehouse on Wednesday, January 22, 2014.

The Star's liberal twin columnists, Matt Tully and Erika Smith, have been firing political shots with regularity and intensity, at both city and state conservative Republicans in recent months. So it was not surprising that The Star Editorial Board decided that House Speaker Brian Bosma would be an easy and politically correct target to pile onto.

Speaker Bosma made the unusual, but legal, move of shifting HJR-3 from the Judicial Committee to the Elections Committee. Naturally, the move was made to help ensure the resolution made it out of committee and onto the House floor for a vote to send it to the people of Indiana. This entire move has been in a legal process for almost three years. and Speaker Bosma as well as many other legislators have many citizens in their districts who are counting on an opportunity to voice their opinions at the polling place.

If this issue does not eventually go to a vote of the people, it will be looked on as a failure and a disservice to those who hold the traditional, and religious belief that marriage should be between one man and one woman. The Editorial Board suggested that Bosma should have kept the bill in the committee he originally assigned it to, since hundreds of people traveled to the Statehouse to voice their objections and the House gallery and hallways were packed with protesters. Has the board already forgotten about the mob of union people who packed the gallery and who loudly and radically objected to the possibility the state would pass right-to-work legislation. Screaming louder than your opponent doesn't make your position right. Don't deny Indiana's silent citizens a right to voice their opinions at the polls.

John Gee

Indianapolis

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Brian Bosma made the right call

The Star's liberal twin columnists, Matt Tully and Erika Smith, have been firing political shots with regularity and intensity, at both city and state conservative Republicans in recent months.